[poppler] Arthur Backend

[mihai Niculescu]

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On Jun 3, 2013, at 19:38, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> El Dilluns, 3 de juny de 2013, a les 09:41:41, Mihai Niculescu va escriure:
>> Hi,
>
> Hi!
>
>> I am working on Arthur backend and did some changes for the backend not
>> to use Splash, but only Qt and QPainter.
>> Right now, the backend can render very good PDF files with the exceptions:
>> - does not render non-latin characters
>> - does not render multiple resolutions
>
> How are you fixing the embedded font problem?

The embedded fonts are read from file using the GfxFont. I only have a
problem with CID font with which I didn't advance enough- this is why
I cannot make it display CJK. Mostly, the code is similar with
SplashOutputDev and Cairo.
>
>> These are the only problems I found. Are you interested in these changes
>> and how can I add these to git repo?
>
> Send patches, either here or to bugzilla (but *not* to both)

I'll replay with another email containing the patch.

>
>> Also, I am thinking of modifying the wrapper to also support Qt5 but I
>> dont know how to  modify the build system (configure, makefiles) to
>> search for Qt5/Qt4, set libraries and moc accordingly and to set a
>> global variable to use it in the code in order to know which code to enable:
>> #ifdef QT5_VERSION
>
> No, create a qt5 folder, don't fill the place with ifdefs, we did that with
> qt3 and qt4 back in the time and it was a mess.
 Ok.

>
> Cheers,
>  Albert
>
>>
>> or something like this. If someone can help me with this, than I'll make
>> poppler-qt4 support even Qt5.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mihai
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